Child care provider faces new charges in fatal dog mauling

12:53 AM,
May 7, 2013

Jena Wright

Written by

Jeff Eckhoff

The Prairie City child care provider whose dog attacked and killed a 4-year-old girl in her care last month now faces new charges for fighting with police.

Jena Marie Wright, 24, was arrested April 23 on felony charges of child endangerment and neglect or abandonment of a dependent person after her dog, an American Staffordshire terrier named Brutus, fatally mauled Jordyn Arndt, 4.

Wright was formally arraigned on those charges Monday afternoon - plus two additional misdemeanor charges of assaulting a police ...